Yonatan

Member since: Sep 22nd, 2009

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Defend against Firesheep by surfing securely with HTTPS (Download Squad)

Oct 27th 2010 4:06PM It does, but facebook and other sites aren't inside the TOR network, and for data to travel back and forth between the user's browser and these sites, it must pass through an exit and entry nodes, where it is encrypted and decrypted. Anyone can run these nodes, and as you can see in the Wired article, they can do with the information as they please. TOR only masks your IP address and encrypts the communication so the user's ISP can't read it, but that is of little use for the average western user.

Defend against Firesheep by surfing securely with HTTPS (Download Squad)

Oct 27th 2010 2:00PM Only inside the TOR network.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-documents/

Defend against Firesheep by surfing securely with HTTPS (Download Squad)

Oct 27th 2010 11:43AM TOR doesn't make you at all secure, quite the contrary.

Use MP3 Skype Recorder to defend yourself against faceless corporations (Download Squad)

Apr 27th 2010 2:19PM To some extent, yes. But I have found 012.net to be of exceptional chutzpah. They "reimbursed" me with a few months of free internet access. I never logged into the service, but that didn't stop them from threatening me with collecting the "debt" that was accumulated when the free plan was up!
I told them to have a lawyer contact me, and that was the end of it.

IE9 unveiled. Faster, more standards-compliant -- DirectX accelerated! (Download Squad)

Nov 18th 2009 6:09PM What better way to celebrate a new faster, more standards-compliant browser than to greet the user with a SilverLight (TM) installation dialogue?